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Community Diagnostic Centres

Commons · Question 81682 · Tabled 13 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 20 Oct 2025

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Asked by Josh Fenton-Glynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that patients with (a) vague and (b) non-specific symptoms can undergo a range of tests in one visit at Community Diagnostic Centres.

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Answered by Karin Smyth, 20 Oct 2025

The Elective Reform Plan, published in January 2025, sets out the productivity and reform efforts needed to return to the 18-week constitutional standard by the end of this Parliament. The plan commits to transforming and expanding diagnostic services and...